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Shaping Future Discourse about Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Hate Speecht 08-10 September 2020 1 Tuesday, 08-09-2020 „Media, holocaust and generation Z: Time for new approaches“ 17:30 - 18:00 Greeting & Opening Remarks » Susanne Glass 18:30 - 19:15 Talk: 3 Generations 3 Perspectives » Holocaust survivor *requested CET » Jenny Havemann CET » 2nd generation: Michael Shubitz » JPC: Dan Meridor » 3rd generation: Keren Knoll » Susanne Wasum-Rainer » Elishav Rabinovith » Hannah Liko » Barbara Glück » Jean-Daniel Ruch » Ron Huldai » Moderator: Eliyah Havemann » Ulrich Wilhelm » Charlotte Knobloch 19:15 - 20:15 “Alliances Against Antisemitism & » Sawsan Chebli CET Hate Speech”, Discussion » Roger Schawinski 18:00 - 18:15 Keynote Speech » Reuven Rivlin *requested » Ksenia Svetlova CET » Nikodemus C. Schnabel » Rabbi Dov Lipman » Alana Baranov 18:15 - 18:30 » Mati Kochavi Presenting “Eva’s Stories Project” » CET Moderator: Markus Spillmann 2 3 *Program is subject to change Speakers Susanne Glass Jenny Havemann Hannah Liko Jean Daniel Ruch Dr. Susanne Glass is a Jenny Havemann is an Hannah Liko is the Austrian Jean-Daniel Ruch is the Swiss political scientist and one of entrepreneur and the founder Ambassador to Israel since Ambassador in Israel since the founders of the Startup & CEO of GIIN (German- 2019. From 2013-2017, 2016. He joined the Swiss Media Summit. Dr. Glass is Israeli Innovation Network) she worked at the Office of Foreign Service in 1992 after the bureau chief and TV- as well as the Co-Founder the Secretary General for having worked three years chief correspondent for ARD, of Startup Media Tel Aviv. Foreign Affairs, MFA. She in the Ministry of Defense. Germany’s biggest public broadcasting company, As a political analyst and social media expert, she was appointed Head of the Office of the Secretary In 2008, he was appointed by the Ambassador and and responsible for the news coverage of the Middle frequently gives lectures about Israel related topics General, MFA and in 2018, worked as Interim Special Representative for the Middle East, focusing East. Before moving to Israel, she was already the and advises politicians and organisations on Israeli Director of the Department for Security Affairs, on the conflicts in the region. bureau chief and chief correspondent of ARD’s politics and German-Israeli relations. MFA. studio in Vienna, Austria, covering South-East Europe and Austria. Dan Meridor Susanne Rainer-Wasum Ron Huldai Charlotte Knobloch SusanDan Meridor, an Israeli Susanne Rainer-Wasum is a Ron Huldai is the current Born in Munich in 1932, politician, is the Advisory German diplomat who has Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, in Charlotte Knobloch survived Board Chairman of the been serving as Germany’s office since 1998. Huldai has the Holocaust in hiding on Jerusalem Press Club, and Ambassador to Israel since slowly but steadily brought a farm in northern Bavaria. an served as a minister in 2018. Before, Wasum- his vision of a forward- After the war, she returned multiple positions. Meridor Rainer served as German thinking, technologically to Munich where she has is a long-time member of the Likud party, in the Ambassador to France; she was the first female advanced Tel Aviv to life. Before he entered his role served as head of the Jewish Community of Munich late 1990s he became one of the founders of the person to hold the post and succeeded Reinhard as Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Huldai served as a fighter and Upper Bavaria since 1985. In this capacity, she Centre Party. Meridor has been a Knesset observer Schäfers. Besides her mother-tongue German, she pilot and a commander in the Israeli Air Force. oversaw the opening of the new main synagogue to the Council of Europe and has published articles speaks English, Italian, and Hebrew. and community center in 2006/07. in academic journals. 4 5 *Program is subject to change Speakers Ulrich Wilhelm Michael Shubitz Barbara Glück Eliyah Havemann Ulrich Wilhelm is a German Michael Shubitz works as a Dr Barbara Glück, Director of Eliyah Havemann is Cyber lawyer and journalist. Since camera operator for ARD, the Mauthausen Memorial, Security expert, German February 1, 2011, Wilhelm Germany‘s biggest public is an Austrian historian and author („Wie werde ich is director of the Bayerischer broadcasting company, in Tel political scientist. She has Jude?“), and blogger. Born Rundfunk (BR). Aviv. He is of Lithuanian origin headed the Mauthausen and raised in Germany, he and the second generation of Memorial for 14 years and converted to Judaism and Holocaust survivors, discussing his experience at our established it as a separate Federal Agency. moved to Israel with his wife Jenny about ten years panel „3 Generations - 3 perspectives“. ago. He is the son of the famous German songwriter Wolf Biermann. Keren Knoll Elishav Rabinovich Sawsan Chebli Roger Schawinski Keren Knoll is the Elishav Rabinovich lives in Sawsan Chebli has been Roger Schawinski is a Swiss granddaughter of Mireille Tel Aviv with his wife and the State of Berlin Delegate journalist and entrepreneur Knoll, Holocaust survivor his 5 daughters. He is the to the Federation and as well as the creator of Swiss murdered in Paris, and a Comunity Manager of the Permanent Secretary for consumer watchdog program mother of two. She was born Zikaron BaSalon project. He Active Citizenship and Kassensturz. In 2003, he in Paris, and lives in Israel has a MA in Talmud Studies International Relations since gained international status for 23 years. Here, she served as a military captain from the Bar Ilan University and is an alumni of the 2016. She is a strong advocate of interreligious when he joined the German Television network officer at the IDF. Hesder Yeshiva in Tkoa. dialogue, especially between Muslims and Jews, and „Sat. 1“ and became the managing director for three campaigns against anti-Semitism as well as against consecutive years. Islamophobia. 6 7 *Program is subject to change Speakers Ksenia Svetlowa Nikodemus C. Schnabel Markus Spillman Mati Kochavi Ksenia Svetlova, born Pater Dr. Nikodemus Markus Spillmann is a Swiss Together with his daughter in Moscow, is an Israeli C. Schnabel, O.S.B., is journalist, Entrepreneur, Maya, Mati Kochavi, an journalist, researcher, writer a Benedictine Monk of media adviser. He is the Israeli-born billionaire and and politician. She has served the Dormition Abbey in owner of SPILLMANN businessman, created „Eva‘s as MK with the Zionist Jerusalem. He is the Director Publizistik Strategie story“, a Holocaust education Union 2015-2019. Currently, of The Jerusalem Institute Management GmbH. Former project that sparked Svetlova is a senior research fellow at the Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft (JIGG). In 2010, Pater Head of Journalism at NZZ AG and former Editor-in- controversy even before its first post. Apart from for Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya and Mitvim Nikodemus published his first book “For Zion’s sake” Chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. being the Chairman and Owner of AGT International, institute. in which he explores the life of the Dormitio monks. Kochavi is the CEO of many high tech companies specialising in cutting edge „cyber-security“ and „public safety“ technologies. His Family Fund supports the ongoing building of facilities in Israel for children of all faiths with serious physical and mental disabilities. Rabbi Dov Lipman Alana Barov Dov Lipman is an Israeli Alana Baranov is a Steering politician. He served as a Committee member of the member of the Knesset for WJC Jewish Diplomatic Yesh Atid between 2013 and Corps, the flagship program 2015. Born and raised in the of the World Jewish United States, Lipman and Congress, under the vision his wife immigrated to Bet Shemesh, Israel in 2004, and leadership of WJC President Ronald S. Lauder. where Lipman taught in post-high school yeshivot Originally from Zimbabwe, Alana is a freelance and seminaries. writer, researcher and social justice activist based in Durban, South Africa. Formerly the first Diplomatic Liaison for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) national office and the Vice President of the Council of KwaZulu-Natal Jewry, Alana currently runs the Adult Education and Social Justice portfolio at the Durban Holocaust Centre. 8 9 *Program is subject to change Wednesday, 09-09-2020 “When the discourse gets nasty: Anti-Semitism, Hate-Speech, Fake-News“ 16:15 - 16:30 Keynote Speech » Dr. Maram Stern 18:30 -19:15 Discussing the Official Definition » Anetta Kahane CET CET of Anti-Semitism: Agreeing to » Christina Hainzl » Lukas Mandl Disagree? » Omri Attar » Ben-Dror Yemini 16:30 - 17:15 Trends in Holocaust Awareness: » Eyal Kaminka CET » Dana Porath How We Need to Engage the » Moderator: Ellie Hochenberg Public via Digital Media“ » Moderator: Iris Rosenberg 19:15 - 19:45 Talk with Wolf Biermann » Wolf Biermann CET 17:15 - 18:00 Keynote Speech » Heiko Maas *requested “Extremism & populism. How to » Moderator: Susanne Glass CET » Gabi Ashkenazi *requested deal with it?” » Alexander Schallenberg *requested 18:00 - 18:30 Survey Presentation: „Europe and » Joachim Rother 19:45 - 20:30 Panel: The Role of the Media in » Othmar Karas CET CET Israel – Insights into the Mutual » Dina Porat Shaping the Attitude Towards the » Iris Rosenberg » Lital Henig Perception“ Holocaust » Moderator: Mike Lingenfelser » Dr. Laurence Weinbaum » Moderator: Alexandra Föderl-Schmid 10 11 *Program is subject to change Speakers Maram Stern Eyal Kaminka Joachim Rother Dina Porat Maram Stern has been the Eyal Kaminka is the Dr. Joachim Rother is Dina Porat is the chief Executive Vice President of International Director of the project manager at historian at Yad Vashem the World Jewish Congress Holocaust Studies in Yad Bertelsmann Stiftung in Jerusalem. She is the since October 2019, having Vashem. He holds the Lily and manages their Israel professor emeritus of served for three months prior Safra Chair of Holocaust Portfolio.